Managing a Creative Life in a Chaotic World

Creativity in Chaos – A new focus

I’m very excited about some recent changes to this blog. Note the new header and “About Mary Ann Fraser” page. Until now I have been focusing primarily on the world of children’s books because, well, it’s what I do. But I do other things, too, so I’ve decided to broaden my territories while focusing in on the broader point behind these musings of mine, namely, how to manage a creative life in a chaotic world.

It’s fine and dandy to talk about how to craft beautiful stories, and make pictures, but that’s only a small slice of the pie. How do you give birth to entire worlds in pictures and words when you’re also trying to maintain a second day job, cook for a family, exercise, attend classes or conferences, tend to the menagerie, drive your kids all over creation, and finish that novel you’ve been reading for a month because you keep falling asleep after one paragraph? That’s a lot of plates in the air, and we all have them. But let’s face it, some are going to fall once in a while, and that’s okay. It’s all about choices.

I choose to write and draw because it makes my soul sing, and I’m going to keep those plates twirling at maximum rpm’s while others are left to teeter and perhaps come crashing down. If the house windows don’t get washed we’ll all live. (Besides, you know it will rain tomorrow if I do.) It’s not all about me, though. I’m just sharing the journey. I want to hear how you’re managing it all, too.

Thanks, Greg. I know you will have all kinds of insight to offer. Oh, gotta go, the dog wants to be fed and I need to call theh Authors Guild with a question pertaining to e-book rights. Don’t you love legal mumbo jumbo?